This picture was taken in 1958 at Shorehaven Beach Club, a pool
in Clason Point many in the East Bronx belonged to (its main
competitor was Castle Hill Pool). It shows my mother's daily Mah
Jongg game with her friends, set up in the same area everyday by
claiming it at opening time. The responsibility varied among
'the girls' (and their kids, like me).

--Charles Fogelman

This was my brother's Shorehaven membership card (his 'pass').

--Charles Fogelman

This was also at the corner of Elder and Watson Avenues in 1948,
looking across Watson Avenue past my Aunt Jenie, cousins Amy and
Steven, and Brother Roger.

--Charles Fogelman

This is a picture of me, my mom and my cousin Sheila at Castle
Hill Pool. Our family had memberships and this was a great place
to spend weekends in the summer. This was taken around 1956 or 1957.

--Mike Baskin

This is a photo of JHS 44, located at Prospect Avenue & 176th
Street. I graduated from this school in 1944. The building was
physically small but rich in content!

--Mike Baskin

Here is a picture of P.S. 67 taken approxmately 1957. The school
was located on Mohegan Avenue (almost Southern Boulevard at that
point) between 179th Street and 178th Street. Daly Avenue was at
the rear of the school. Mr. Petluck was the principal when I
graduated.

--Gerry Weintraub

Editor's Note: Lester A., PS 67 Class of 1958, adds: "The east side of the school was actually bordered by Honeywell Avenue, not Daly Avenue. I grew up one block north of the school on the very same street."

This is a picture of the Parkchester Oval taken in 1956. The
Oval, at Unionport Road and Metropolitan Avenue, was the center
of the Parkchester development in the NE Bronx (177th Street
stop on the IRT Pelham Bay Line). The picture shows several of
the statues squirting water in the air into the pond, with some
typical Parkchester apartment buildings in the background. There
were benches around the Oval and trees, flowers, bushes, etc., a
beautiful oasis amid the concrete surroundings.

--Alan L., Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Graduation day at the RKO Chester Theatre, for Frank D. Whalen
JHS 135, June, 1961. I'm on the left (front, foreground) wearing
glasses, in graduation gown, standing under the El near the RKO
Chester. On the right (front, foreground) is Joel (Iskowitz?),
of PS 96 "Floorless Cab" fame. I cannot identify any of the
other people. But I do love that gorgeous 1961 Pontiac
(Bonneville?) behind me. I was experiencing mixed emotions,
because on this the happiest day of my life, I also knew that I
would soon be leaving the Bronx, and that made me miserable.

--Azar "Ace" Attura

This was a snowstorm on Pelham Parkway December 1959, taken from
the 3rd floor of 615 Pelham Parkway. Bronx River Parkway is in
the background. The trucks would be stuck on Pelham Parkway for
a couple of days whenever there was a blizzard. Although it was
miserable for the truck drivers, at least the perishables in
those trucks were too frozen to perish. On-ramp for Bronx River
Pkway is at the lower right hand side of photo. Tennis court,
baseball diamond and also Bronx Farm-In-The-Zoo are somewhat
visible beyond the trees, background, left.

--Azar "Ace" Attura

This was taken in late March of 1960 standing in the park near
the 601 block of Pelham Parkway, on the way to Pelham Bay (by
bus). White Plains/Boston Post Road is in the background, as is
the Pelham Parkway El Station. Behind that gorgeous white 1958
Pontiac is the little house that served as a Comfort Station to
all the tour buses (and some of the Pelham Parkway bus drivers
too)-- the PPkway bus driver would casually stop his bus, get
out, and leave the bus running while the passengers twiddled
their thumbs waiting for him to come back; wonder of wonders --
no one ever took off with the bus.